A Conversation for 'Lost in La Mancha' - the Ultimate Disaster Movie
The producers
Norton II Started conversation Aug 1, 2003
What I most remember about this film is the sheer clownish stupidity of the film's producers. The warehouse 'studio' wasn't the wosrt of it. They cocked up the logistics from beginning to end and then tried to fire the first assistant director- the only guy on set who knew what he was doing! Also the fact that planes from a NATO base kept overflying the set and ruining the shots- despite promising they wouldn't do so. And Gilliam right in the middle of all this bloody chaos, endlessly optimistic, saying stuff like "no, it was WORSE on Munchashen, we didn't even have costumes on the first day!" Until his first assistant director tells him, when production collapses, "you're not going to be able to make the film you wnated to make." And his face falls... So sad.
Good entry. Any idea if Gilliam is closer to getting it made? Is Depp still involved?
The producers
[...] Posted Aug 1, 2003
As far as I know, he's raising the money to buy the script back from the insurers.
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